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Token Lumpers and Splitters: Spider-Man vs. Superman 21 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
One of the perennial problems in tokenization for search, classification, or clustering of natural language data is which words and phrases are spelled as compounds and which are separate words. For i...
VerbCorner: Another Game with Words 4 Jul 2013 | 09:40 pm
Games with Words continues to roll out new games, releasing VerbCorner. VerbCorner contains a series of sub-games with titles like “Philosophical Zombie Hunter” and questions that sound like they’re s...
All Bayesian Models are Generative (in Theory) 23 May 2013 | 11:41 pm
[This post is a followup to my previous post, Generative vs. discriminative; Bayesian vs. frequentist.] I had a brief chat with Andrew Gelman about the topic of generative vs. discriminative models. I...
The Latin1 Transcoding Trick for Ant 22 Apr 2013 | 03:31 am
A while back Bob blogged about The Latin1 Transcoding Trick for Java Servlets, etc. Suppose you have an API that insists on converting an as-yet-unseen stream of bytes to characters for you (e.g. serv...
Generative vs. Discriminative; Bayesian vs. Frequentist 13 Apr 2013 | 01:19 am
I was helping Boyi Xie get ready for his Ph.D. qualifying exams in computer science at Columbia and at one point I wrote the following diagram on the board to lay out the generative/discriminative and...
Mean-Field Variational Inference Made Easy 25 Mar 2013 | 10:14 pm
I had the hardest time trying to understand variational inference. All of the presentations I’ve seen (MacKay, Bishop, Wikipedia, Gelman’s draft for the third edition of Bayesian Data Analysis) are de...
Day 22 of LingPipe Ski/Code Camp 28 Feb 2013 | 09:27 am
We have been working hard and skiing hard. The vast majority of the past 10 days has beenspent on infrastructure around providing a web interface for some pretty simple linguistics. It always seems to...
LingPipe Ski/Code Camp Gets a Visit from Eric Ringer 28 Feb 2013 | 09:26 am
Eric Ringer, Prof at BYU and really nice guy spent the afternoon at Alta skiing with us and came over for dinner. Very fun time. The entirety of our web enabled/multimedia household was powerless agai...
Anyone Want to Write an O’Reilly Book on NLP with Java? 22 Feb 2013 | 12:52 am
Mitzi and I pitched O’Reilly books a revision of the Text Processing in Java book that she’s been finishing off. The response from their editor was that they’d love to have an NLP book based on Java, ...
Day Blurr…. of LingPipe Ski and Code Camp 21 Feb 2013 | 07:01 am
Jeff showed up on Saturday, we got a day in of fun on Sunday and it has been a blur of working and skiing. Breck occasionally slips out at night for some quality time with his quiver of skis and to co...
